2 months ago
Base Salary
$193k - $358k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and deploy autonomous agents for scientific workflows, including tool use, evidence retrieval, multi-step reasoning, memory, and context management.
- Design, build, and optimize distributed training and inference systems for foundation models.
- Own production Python and PyTorch codebases and translate research systems into enterprise-grade software.
- Establish MLOps/AgentOps practices for experiment tracking, observability, monitoring, evaluation, CI/CD, and infrastructure.
- Define the engineering roadmap for agentic and foundation models and provide technical leadership across Genentech.
- Partner with ML scientists and domain experts to turn scientific problems into efficient, shippable systems.
Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
- At least 5 years of industry experience with a PhD, 8 years with an MS, or 10 years with a BS building, shipping, and owning large-scale ML systems and infrastructure end-to-end.
- Exceptional Python skills and strong software engineering fundamentals, including Git, automated testing, documentation, and architecture design.
- Extensive hands-on experience with PyTorch, JAX, distributed systems, and ML infrastructure deployed on AWS or HPC environments.
- Experience designing agent orchestration frameworks, including LangGraph or MCP-based tool integration, persistent agent memory, and self-improving loops.
- Strong interest in applying frontier AI and agentic science to drug discovery, biology, and chemistry.
- Preferred: expertise in LLM serving, test-time compute, sampling and search strategies, model routing, batching, caching, and latency/cost/quality tradeoffs.
- Preferred: experience with molecular modalities such as protein sequences, chemical graphs, and structured molecular data.
- Preferred: public contributions to open-source ML, systems, or MLOps libraries.
Benefits
- Onsite presence at the Roche/Genentech campus is expected.
- Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.
- The position qualifies for the company benefits detailed in the provided benefits link.
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About Roche
Roche is a Swiss healthcare company that develops and sells prescription pharmaceuticals and in vitro diagnostic systems for hospitals, laboratories, and clinicians. Its business spans two core divisions—Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics—with strengths in oncology, immunology, neuroscience, infectious diseases, and diabetes care. Founded in 1896 and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche also advances personalized healthcare by pairing therapies with companion diagnostics.